- CARVE The arts of engraving and carving were much practised among the
Jews. They were practised in connection with the construction of the
tabernacle and the temple (Exodus 31:2, 5; 35:33; 1 Kings 6:18, 35; Psalm
74:6), as well as in the ornamentation of the priestly dresses (Exodus
28:9-36; Zechariah 3:9; 2 Chronicles 2:7, 14). Isaiah (44:13-17) gives a
minute description of the process of carving idols of wood. - CASEMENT a barrier of open-work placed before windows (Proverbs
7:6). In Judges 5:28 the Hebrew word is rendered “lattice,” in the LXX.
“network,” an opening through which cool air is admitted. - CASIPHIA silver, a place between Babylon and Jerusalem, where Iddo
resided (Ezra 8:17); otherwise unknown. - CASLUHIM fortified, a people descended from Mizraim (Genesis 10:14;
1 Chronicles 1:12). Their original seat was probably somewhere in Lower
Egypt, along the sea-coast to the south border of Palestine. - CASSIA (1.) Hebrew kiddah’, i.e., “split.” One of the principal spices of
the holy anointing oil (Exodus 30:24), and an article of commerce (Ezekiel
27:19). It is the inner bark of a tree resembling the cinnamon (q.v.), the
Cinnamomum cassia of botanists, and was probably imported from India.
(2.) Hebrew pl. ketzi’oth (Psalm 45:8). Mentioned in connection with
myrrh and aloes as being used to scent garments. It was probably prepared
from the peeled bark, as the Hebrew word suggests, of some kind of
cinnamon.